Education: Goodbye, Messrs. Chips

Each year U.S. colleges and universities must say goodbye to many a
famed and favorite figure. Among 1954's retirements: North Carolina's
Howard Washington Odum, 70, slouching, rumpled dean of Southern
sociologists, whose 200-odd books, articles and monographs have set a
whole generation of Southerners to analyzing their problems of poverty,
race and regionalism, and even the state of their schools and soil.
Twice a Ph.D. (Clark and Columbia Universities). Sociologist Odum went
from Georgia's Emory University to North Carolina in 1920. soon won
fame as an insatiable collector of facts and folklore, a writer of
passable novels (e.g., Rainbow Round My...